Why not use the Gas Proceeds instead of cutting defense and some of the other spending cuts.

Michael - are you a J Street follower or something? Got any facts to back up your allegation that "Yesha settlements" are wasteful? No... I didn't think so. You probably swallowed the J Street propaganda that settlements have "drained" Israel's economy. You're probably ready to bulldoze entire neighborhoods in Jerusalem and throw over 100,000 people out of their homes, right? Crikey - half of Jerusalem is considered "Yesha settlements" by people like you. My suggestion to you, Michael, is to go back to Economics 101 and do some homework. You probably have no idea how much tax money goes over the green line, and you probably believe all the other propaganda as well. Shame on you for being ignorant and not finding out where the waste really is.